bought a 1992 525i for 1000.

[Rigmaster]

I picked up a 92 525i for a $1000 and took it to a shop to have it put on the lift to check things out. The rear sway bar links were both broke. I hear that's an easy fix. I had the breaks checked and the mechanic told me that it had some bad ass rotors in the front. He showed them to me and they have a wavy groove cut in them. Are these aftermarket or stock.It is a silver car with black leather that looks almost new. Other than that all that is wrong with the car is a broken headlight and the SRS light blinks for like 5 minutes then goes solid. I'm sure there is a post about that on here some where.

Hey,

just a long shot, but did the car pass thru a salvage auction or other used car auction???

I ask because if it did, that's the likely cause of your broken rear sway bar links. Many of those auctions use loaders with really long forks on the front to load and move cars around their lots. The guys operating those loaders are pretty good with them, but it's very easy for them to break things underneath the car. I have bought several cars from various local salvage auctions with broken rear swaybar links, one of them even had the rear muffler knocked off by the forks, and I actually saw one guy crack the aluminum oil pan on a smashed E30 318is I bought when he was trying to load it on my trailer!!

Bret.

[Alexlind123]

Mine was alot less than 25000, i got it in august of last year.

[arffam1]

Its good to see that good deal can still be found, Its all about being in the right place at the right time. I bought my 91 525i for $1700, she needs a muffler but she has bav auto spring and bilstein sport shock and 152k. Good Luck.

[shogun]

Black inside and out except for wood trim aroud the shift. (soon to be changed - suggestions?) Unfortunately an automatic but I really dont care... lol Plagued by the lower door trim rust but it gives me a summer project...
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well, for the wood you can try to recover it
BMW E32 7-series information and links
automatic is no problem, you will like it sooner or later.
Door trim rust: see my website below, our member Kibokojoe made it with electrolysis